# Cost of compliance

`kaal:entity:cost-of-compliance`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `cost-of-compliance`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2014 to 2026.

**2014**

- [2486570-030](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2486570-030) [mechanism/argued] -- Governance reform delivered through non and deferred prosecution agreements is comparatively cheap for corporations because it adversely affects only a small number of board and management positions.
  > N/DPA-related governance re- form is relatively "cheap" for corporations because comparatively few board and management positions are adversely affected.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Timothy Lacine, The Effect of Deferred and Non-Prosecution Agreements on Corporate Governance Evidence from 1993-20 (2014). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2486570

**2026**

- [7596939-012](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/7596939-012) [mechanism/argued] *(failure mode)* -- What breaks the compliance incentive is the possibility that a suspension never ends, not uncertainty about how long it lasts; a mean-preserving spread in a finite duration weakly lowers the cost of compliance.
  > Should intelligent agents have legal rights? This Article sets that question aside and asks a smaller one that matters more in practice. An intelligent agent that earns a reputation record has something to lose.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Should an Intelligent Agent Have Legal Rights? (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=7596939

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